Country India District Jalandhar Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Elevation 240 m Government body Gram panchayat | State Punjab Tehsil Nakodar ISO 3166 code IN-PB Population 802 (2011) | |
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Thamunwal is a village in Nakodar in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) from Nakodar, 26.7 kilometres (16.6 mi) from Kapurthala, 50 kilometres (31 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 176 kilometres (109 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
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Map of Thamunwal, Punjab
Demography
As of 2011, The village has a total number of 121 houses and population of 802 of which include 421 are males while 381 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 60.83%, lower than state average of 80.36%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 105 which is 13.09% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 842 lower than the state average of 846.
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constiTalwandi Sanghraes 86.03% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per census 2011, 293 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 217 males and 76 females. According to census survey report 2011, 83.62% workers describe their work as main work and 16.38% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
Transport
Nakodar railway station is the nearest train station. The village is 87 kilometres (54 mi) away from domestic airport in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is 120 kilometres (75 mi) away in Amritsar.